Garment



(No Model.)

PT.P0RSYTH.

GARMENT.

Patented Oct. 9., 1888.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICEo PAUL T. FORSYTH, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

GARNI ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 390,765, dated October 9, 1888.

Application filed January 5, ISYS. Serial No. 259.967. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, PAUL THoMAs 'FonsYTIL of Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented anew and I|nproved Garment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to promote the comfort and health of persons exposed to inclement weather when riding or driving by providing a garment provided at each side of the front opening of the skirt portion with pockets which may be slipped over the knees of the wearer of the garment as a protection against cold, winds, or storms.

The invention will tirst be described, and then will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel is an inside face view of the outer lower portion of the front right-hand skirt of a coat with my improved k nee-pocket applied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line x x, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is ahorizontal seclion taken on the liney g/ of Fig. 1, and shows the knee-pocket opened, and also shows in dotted lines a persons knee inserted therein.

The drawings represent a portion of the right skirt of a coat provided with my improved pocket; but it will be understood that the left skirt of the coat will be fitted at the inside lower front corner with a like pocket.

In the preferred manner of carrying out this invention as applied to ordinary non-waterproo'l" garments or overcoats, I form an opcning or pocket, A, at the inner face and lower outer corner or part of each side skirt of the coat and place within each of these pockets an auxiliary water-proof pocket, B; but for garments which are made of water-proof material this auxiliary pocket may be dispensed with.

Overcoats, particularly of the ulster pattern, are usually provided with an inturned portion of the material forming a facing, A', along the inner face and side margin of the coat-skirt, and in such garments I form the pocket A simply by discontinuing the line of stitching a at the inner edge ofthe facing at or near the bottom ot' t-he skirt to provide an opening at the inner edge of the flap of sufficient length to allow a persons knee to be slipped in between the outer material and inner facing. To complete the knee-pocket in its preferred form, an upper row of stitches, a,and alower row of stitches, a2, are run across the facing and the main body ofthe material of the garment at the upper and lower ends ofthe pocket, which thus is left open at its inner edge and lengthwise of the skirt ofthe garment.

To hold the pocket closed when it is not in use as a knee-protector, I provide a series of buttons, C, on the coat skirt, which may be engaged by button-holes D made in the skirtflap or outer wall of the pocket; but'hook-and eye fastenings may be used instead of the buttons, if preferred.

Vhen the water-proof pocket B is used in the outer pocket, A, I preferably hold the pocket B within the one A by a row of stitches, I), through the outer walls of the pockets A B, along the inner edges lof the pockets, and the button-holes D will be worked through the outerwalls of both pockets, and the buttons C will be secured to theinner wall of the auxiliary pocket B, which wall may either be left loose or free from the main body of the material of the skirt of the garment, or may be attached thereto by sewing or otherwise. Fig. 1 of the drawings shows the kneepocket closed and fastened, as when out of use, and Fig. 3 shows the knee-pocket open and indicates in dotted lines a persons knee within the pocket.

It is obvious that it requires but a moments time, after a person wearing the garment has seated himself in a vehicle or on horseback, to open the flap-pockets at the coat-skirts and slip them over his knees as a protection to them in cold or wetweather and without re quiring him to pass his feet through slots or openings at the coat-skirts, as must be donc with other forms of knee-pockets heretofore provided in outer garments. This case of adjustment of the pockets of my invention is a manifest advantage, and the application of the pockets to a garment is easily and cheaply effected, and the ordinary appearance of the garment remains practically unchanged at both the outer and inner faces of its skirts. In ordinary cloth garments the auxiliary wa- Too ter-prooi` pocket may be used or not, as desired, and in water-proof garments the auxiliary pockets B will be dispensed with, as a single pocket, A, formed in and of the mate rial of the coat, as above described, will answer every purpose in keeping the knees both warm and dry.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A garment provided at each side of the front openi ng of the skirt portion with a kneepocket closed at its outer edge and open at its inner edge and closed at its lower edge, substantially as described, whereby the knees of the wearer may be inserted in the pockets, as set forth.

2. A garment provided at each side of the front opening ofthe skirt portion with a k nee pocket closed at its outer edge and open at its inner edge and closed at its lower edge, coinbined with fastenings at or along the open edges of the pockets, allowing them to be closed when not in use as knee-protectors,substantially as herein set forth.

3. A garment provided at each side of the front opening of its skirt portion with a kneepocket arranged between the main body ot' the material of the skirt and inner facing or lap oi' the skirt, and said pockets closed at the outer edge, the top, and the bottom, and made to open at their inner edges to receive the knees of the wearer of the garment, substair tially as herein set forth.

4. A garment provided at each side of the front opening 'of its Skirt portion with a kneepocket, which is closed at the outer edge and open at the inner edge, combined with auxiliary water-proof pockets placed within the skirt-pockets and closed at their outer edges and open at their inner edges, to open with the skirtpockets to receive the knees of the wearer of the garment, substantially as herein set forth.

5. A garment provided at each side of the front opening of its skirt portion with a kneepocket, which is closed at the outer edge and open at the inner edge, combined with auXilL ary water-proof pockets placed within the skirt-pockets and closed at the outer edge and open at the inner edge to open with the skirtpockets to receive the knees of the wearer of the garment, and button or hook fastenings at or along the open edges of the pockets to allow them to be closed when not in use asknee protectors, substantially as herein set l'orth.

PAUL T. FORSYTH.

Witnesses:

J onN T. SMITH, J'ixeor. BUXBAUM. 

